FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2010

Today is Friday, July 16, the 197th day of 2010. There are 168 days left in the year.

1439 ― Kissing is banned in England

1894 ― Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England

1912 ― Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske

1945 ― First atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico

1951 ― Novel ``Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger published

1960 ― 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer

1969 ― Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched

1981 ― Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously

1988 ― Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 meters in 9.78 seconds

1988 ― Florence Joyner runs 100 meters in women's world record of 10.49 seconds